An earth devastated by an asteroid is still a much more friendly place to live on then either Moon or Mars. Self sustaining off-world colonies won't happen for many many years to come.
The actual act of devastation is what will cause extinction, not the after-effects. According to geologists and paleontologists, we are living on an earth devastated by an asteroid.
So, if they are found guilty, what's to stop "interest groups" from going after gun manufacturer's next saying that they are enabling criminals? And after that auto manufacturer's for enabling drunk drivers for after all without cars we wouldn't have drunk drivers. Whatever happened to personal responsibility and holding the actual criminals responsible for their actions?
You forget, those are merely the lives of people who make less than 250,000 US dollars a year, and this is the revenue for large corporations.
One of these things is worth more than the other./sarcasm
a) Apply anti-trust laws where they should be b) Stop abusive market practices c) Allow a fair playing field for capitalism to run
Oh, wait, outright biased the other way? Shove your BS back up your ass.
I'm not defending his point of view, but in this case A) is not being applied where it should be. There's this huge company who is, right now, abusing its OS monopoly to push a media format which is intentionally incompatible with linux and powerpc macs, but theyre looking at google.
a. regulate in the public interest b. if a company is profitable than it is criminal, go to step a. c. if a company is unprofitable, nationalize it, and stuff it with your buddies, return to step a.
If you replace "profitable" with "dangerously large" or "too big to fail" or "abusive to its market segment" then you have the truth.
Systematic risk is the reason why we are forking over 1.6 trillion dollars and climbing to bail out the economy. Serious regulation needs to be put into place to keep these companies structured in a way in which they cannot fail (set a maximum net worth of a subsidiary, force a company to keep each subsidiary financially independent)
This said, I do have concerns these people are eyeing google and ignoring M$ elephant, who is sitting in the room.
Living in better balance with our environment and within our resources will not save us from a space rock or plague, off-world colonies will, and that's my point.
The main evolutionary trait of human beings is technology, and we are in a unique position to do this, which would set us on the road to the eventually disentanglement of our survival with that of one small planet.
If we fail to do this, then a global catastrophe will eventually happen which outstrips our technology and render us extinct.
1) - there is moderately workable impact shielding developed for satellites/space craft which consists of plates separated by gaps which spread out the kinetic energy of debris and has been proven effective against small impacts.
2) "space cleaning" could easily be done by deploying some large engineered dragnet style objects into the path of the debris. Obviously careful engineering would have to be used to assure collisions dont cause pieces to splash from the dragnet, but I think its quite doable.
3) we already track space debris down to very small levels. Currently nasa have maps of these pieces, down to the size of a screw if I remember correctly.
4) this is often done already, at least by government agencies. Private companies are another matter, but i've never heard of a private satellite going completely out of use.
5) we may as well just nuke it all now if we don't establish extra-terrestrial colonies. Colonization of space is the next logical step for a species which develops intelligence, and if we don't continue down that path we are a dead-end branch waiting to be pruned from the tree of life.
It's been mentioned before, but this could be the beginning of kessler syndrome, and worldwide space agencies might need to deploy junk removal solutions.
The RIAAs' heroes, congress, are going to get away with it! The RIAA deserves to deny software and electronics developers their rights to manufacture and sell their own IP, deny individuals their fair use and due process rights, and to strangle our tech sector to death to defend their obsolete business model.
I join the RIAA in cheering the DMCA, and hope acta will add the right for the RIAA's government stooges to steal my computer or ipod, and kick me off the internet for a year on a mere accusation.
Corporate execs who can't adapt destroying the economy and the fundamental principles of the free world. What's not to love?
I don't think they can go after the makers of BitTorrent clients, especially since some of the big media companies have deals with some of the makers. Did you know that cars are used to smuggle illegal goods across country borders? Some people - criminals, that is - have cars entirely for the purpose of smuggling!
Shitty car-analogy quota fulfilled:P
Ah yes, they don't go after technologies they later "bless".
Of course if they got what they currently want from the acta treaty they continue to draft in secret with only their lobbyists and perhaps 2 unelected officials from each respective nation bit torrent would have been sued out of existence long before they "made deals"
I love TPB as much as the next guy, but to be fair, they aren't just pointing out the location, they are to a large extend facilitating the infringement. To give a classic poor analogy, they aren't just telling you where the drug dealer lives, they are his PA. And, duly, they are getting boned for accessory to copyright infringement, which sounds about right (Though where you draw the line is debatable. By the same merit the people who invented the modern computer are accessories to copyright infringement).
I like car dealers as much as the next guy, but to be fair, they aren't just pointing out the getaway car, they're to a large extent facilitating that flight from (insert crime scene here).
To give a classic poor analogy, they aren't just telling you where the vehicle is, they're getaway car PA's, talking up the horsepower, mileage, and endurance often required in car chases and long-term flights.
It's funny how if people complain about problems with the latest ATI video card being 600 dollars we hear the peanut gallery mock about early adopters but when people complain about the same thing involving drugs we hear that it's nothing but greed on the manufacturers part.
You don't suffer in horrible agony, become debilitated and lose your job, family, or sanity, or die when you don't get a video card.
Additionally, most R&D today is done in federally funded universities.
Funny how the anti-socialized medicine crowd are all over it when it comes to helping main street but its perfectly fine to socialize the R&D for these companies, then hand them the patents.
This is exactly how microsoft operates to keep people from switching to alternative platforms (e.g. oss solutions)
they did it with WMV for ages until the pressure became too great.
now they're trying to do it with silverlight.
I find it a little too convenient that they release 2.0 the moment news arises of linux support for 1.0. As soon as they develop 2.0 for linux they'll upgrade to 3.0, and so on and so forth.
Azureus (and many other bit torrent clients), have this magical tool called "view peers"
Oh my god! I just identified dozens of people to sue, and if I put a logger into the client, which is open source, i can identify practically everyone!
In other news, there are millions of torrent files and a couple p2p snitch firms. I guess its time to take a paddle and start trying to beat back the ocean.
Space is very, very big... These things are tiny by comparison.
How on earth are you so stupid as to place these on intersecting orbits.
Heck, even with intersecting orbits the odds of satellites smaller than a sub-compact crashing are astronomical from the margin of error in payload placement.
Oh well, when the cascade gets into full swing we will hopefully send some huge metal foam panels into orbit to catch the debris.
"o summarise it, iiNet's only going along with the trial to demonstrate the futility of filtering."
I'm going to punch you in the face now...
I'm doing it to prove that, one day, someone tougher than me will come along and make me pay for it, but for now I will continue punching you in the face.
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Just call it "stimulus" and us yanks will just print some more money for it.:/
There's nothing wrong in this economic environment with printing money.
We are facing a severe spectre of deflation, unofficially I think its already happening.
While hyperinflation is bad, it's unlikely to happen with such a massive collapse of the credit markets and money supply, but deflation is a severe concern as the majority of people and businesses have taken on considerable debts.
Deflation makes debts more onerous. The last thing we need in an environment where people's wages are being crushed in a vice is to make their student loans even harder to pay, or conversely the last thing we need in an environment where consumer spending is slowing is to allow prices to drop, rendering corporate debts more onerous... making either untenable for their respective parties will only lead to more disaster.
Printing money with what in any other times would be considered dangerous and reckless abandon is actually a good way to provide a counter-force to this threat.
I can barely hear you over the sound of all the kool-aid you're drinking.
oh the irony.
I made no claims that democrats were any more responsible, but at least they TRY to apply tax money to the people instead of companies or nations with names half the populace cannot pronounce.
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Is this the "concession" to the republicans for the stimulus package?
square brackets?
I don't know swedish and this post has no links to check either way, but the use of square brackets to try to trick a judge?
Where do they think this is, patent-troll alley, texas?
An earth devastated by an asteroid is still a much more friendly place to live on then either Moon or Mars. Self sustaining off-world colonies won't happen for many many years to come.
The actual act of devastation is what will cause extinction, not the after-effects.
According to geologists and paleontologists, we are living on an earth devastated by an asteroid.
So, if they are found guilty, what's to stop "interest groups" from going after gun manufacturer's next saying that they are enabling criminals? And after that auto manufacturer's for enabling drunk drivers for after all without cars we wouldn't have drunk drivers.
Whatever happened to personal responsibility and holding the actual criminals responsible for their actions?
You forget, those are merely the lives of people who make less than 250,000 US dollars a year, and this is the revenue for large corporations.
One of these things is worth more than the other. /sarcasm
Or rather:
a) Apply anti-trust laws where they should be
b) Stop abusive market practices
c) Allow a fair playing field for capitalism to run
Oh, wait, outright biased the other way? Shove your BS back up your ass.
I'm not defending his point of view, but in this case A) is not being applied where it should be. There's this huge company who is, right now, abusing its OS monopoly to push a media format which is intentionally incompatible with linux and powerpc macs, but theyre looking at google.
I wonder who wrote their campaign checks.
This is democratic politics in a nutshell
a. regulate in the public interest
b. if a company is profitable than it is criminal, go to step a.
c. if a company is unprofitable, nationalize it, and stuff it with your buddies, return to step a.
If you replace "profitable" with "dangerously large" or "too big to fail" or "abusive to its market segment" then you have the truth.
Systematic risk is the reason why we are forking over 1.6 trillion dollars and climbing to bail out the economy. Serious regulation needs to be put into place to keep these companies structured in a way in which they cannot fail (set a maximum net worth of a subsidiary, force a company to keep each subsidiary financially independent)
This said, I do have concerns these people are eyeing google and ignoring M$ elephant, who is sitting in the room.
Living in better balance with our environment and within our resources will not save us from a space rock or plague, off-world colonies will, and that's my point.
The main evolutionary trait of human beings is technology, and we are in a unique position to do this, which would set us on the road to the eventually disentanglement of our survival with that of one small planet.
If we fail to do this, then a global catastrophe will eventually happen which outstrips our technology and render us extinct.
1) - there is moderately workable impact shielding developed for satellites/space craft which consists of plates separated by gaps which spread out the kinetic energy of debris and has been proven effective against small impacts.
2) "space cleaning" could easily be done by deploying some large engineered dragnet style objects into the path of the debris. Obviously careful engineering would have to be used to assure collisions dont cause pieces to splash from the dragnet, but I think its quite doable.
3) we already track space debris down to very small levels. Currently nasa have maps of these pieces, down to the size of a screw if I remember correctly.
4) this is often done already, at least by government agencies. Private companies are another matter, but i've never heard of a private satellite going completely out of use.
5) we may as well just nuke it all now if we don't establish extra-terrestrial colonies. Colonization of space is the next logical step for a species which develops intelligence, and if we don't continue down that path we are a dead-end branch waiting to be pruned from the tree of life.
It's been mentioned before, but this could be the beginning of kessler syndrome, and worldwide space agencies might need to deploy junk removal solutions.
The RIAAs' heroes, congress, are going to get away with it! The RIAA deserves to deny software and electronics developers their rights to manufacture and sell their own IP, deny individuals their fair use and due process rights, and to strangle our tech sector to death to defend their obsolete business model.
I join the RIAA in cheering the DMCA, and hope acta will add the right for the RIAA's government stooges to steal my computer or ipod, and kick me off the internet for a year on a mere accusation.
Corporate execs who can't adapt destroying the economy and the fundamental principles of the free world. What's not to love?
Google translations of any foreign text over junior high level are about as accurate and lucid as a -1 slashdot post.
Care to provide a synopsis of what this guy is actually saying.
I don't think they can go after the makers of BitTorrent clients, especially since some of the big media companies have deals with some of the makers. Did you know that cars are used to smuggle illegal goods across country borders? Some people - criminals, that is - have cars entirely for the purpose of smuggling!
Shitty car-analogy quota fulfilled :P
Ah yes, they don't go after technologies they later "bless".
Of course if they got what they currently want from the acta treaty they continue to draft in secret with only their lobbyists and perhaps 2 unelected officials from each respective nation bit torrent would have been sued out of existence long before they "made deals"
I love TPB as much as the next guy, but to be fair, they aren't just pointing out the location, they are to a large extend facilitating the infringement. To give a classic poor analogy, they aren't just telling you where the drug dealer lives, they are his PA. And, duly, they are getting boned for accessory to copyright infringement, which sounds about right (Though where you draw the line is debatable. By the same merit the people who invented the modern computer are accessories to copyright infringement).
I like car dealers as much as the next guy, but to be fair, they aren't just pointing out the getaway car, they're to a large extent facilitating that flight from (insert crime scene here).
To give a classic poor analogy, they aren't just telling you where the vehicle is, they're getaway car PA's, talking up the horsepower, mileage, and endurance often required in car chases and long-term flights.
It's funny how if people complain about problems with the latest ATI video card being 600 dollars we hear the peanut gallery mock about early adopters but when people complain about the same thing involving drugs we hear that it's nothing but greed on the manufacturers part.
You don't suffer in horrible agony, become debilitated and lose your job, family, or sanity, or die when you don't get a video card.
Additionally, most R&D today is done in federally funded universities.
Funny how the anti-socialized medicine crowd are all over it when it comes to helping main street but its perfectly fine to socialize the R&D for these companies, then hand them the patents.
I am without insurance in the US, and medications for a chronic disease I have top $2000 (yes, thousand) a month.
I'm sorry, but most middle and even upper middle class people will groan under that kind of expense, and i'm still just trying to start a career.
give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety
so I'll be safer by exposing myself?
Yes you will.
Even hardened criminals will take one look at your full frontal and either be sent screaming or thrown into debilitating vomiting : )
I hope you actually sent that letter.
Isn't there double jeopardy in sweden?
this is a criminal, not civil case.
This is exactly how microsoft operates to keep people from switching to alternative platforms (e.g. oss solutions)
they did it with WMV for ages until the pressure became too great.
now they're trying to do it with silverlight.
I find it a little too convenient that they release 2.0 the moment news arises of linux support for 1.0. As soon as they develop 2.0 for linux they'll upgrade to 3.0, and so on and so forth.
Azureus (and many other bit torrent clients), have this magical tool called "view peers"
Oh my god! I just identified dozens of people to sue, and if I put a logger into the client, which is open source, i can identify practically everyone!
In other news, there are millions of torrent files and a couple p2p snitch firms. I guess its time to take a paddle and start trying to beat back the ocean.
Space is very, very big... These things are tiny by comparison.
How on earth are you so stupid as to place these on intersecting orbits.
Heck, even with intersecting orbits the odds of satellites smaller than a sub-compact crashing are astronomical from the margin of error in payload placement.
Oh well, when the cascade gets into full swing we will hopefully send some huge metal foam panels into orbit to catch the debris.
And to think, for YEARS, all my game consoles have been on all the time! Running up my electricity bills!
This "power button" idea is ripe and ready for environmental conservation.
"o summarise it, iiNet's only going along with the trial to demonstrate the futility of filtering."
I'm going to punch you in the face now...
I'm doing it to prove that, one day, someone tougher than me will come along and make me pay for it, but for now I will continue punching you in the face.
Just call it "stimulus" and us yanks will just print some more money for it. :/
There's nothing wrong in this economic environment with printing money.
We are facing a severe spectre of deflation, unofficially I think its already happening.
While hyperinflation is bad, it's unlikely to happen with such a massive collapse of the credit markets and money supply, but deflation is a severe concern as the majority of people and businesses have taken on considerable debts.
Deflation makes debts more onerous. The last thing we need in an environment where people's wages are being crushed in a vice is to make their student loans even harder to pay, or conversely the last thing we need in an environment where consumer spending is slowing is to allow prices to drop, rendering corporate debts more onerous... making either untenable for their respective parties will only lead to more disaster.
Printing money with what in any other times would be considered dangerous and reckless abandon is actually a good way to provide a counter-force to this threat.
Wow.
I can barely hear you over the sound of all the kool-aid you're drinking.
oh the irony.
I made no claims that democrats were any more responsible, but at least they TRY to apply tax money to the people instead of companies or nations with names half the populace cannot pronounce.